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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… of intelligent women and had several long-standing and loyal female friends. People > Art and Literature Keywords Celebrity Conversation Depression Clubs Fame Gender Unkempt, ungainly, uncouth, with appallingly gluttonous table … synonymous with sociability within the intellectual and cultural circles of London. Part of the reason for this was the celebrity he gradually gained by a lifetime of work as a professional writer, with publications, like his Rambler essays … and being sought out as a famous man are not the same as sociability. Johnson accepted the consequences of literary celebrity – and of notoriety – but he actively engaged in sociability, valuing it, even relying on it, not least when one …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… ‘had always longed to see him [Garrick] in all his great characters,’ a viewing practice that speaks to theatrical celebrity’s growing import. Burney was shaken at seeing her family’s friend transformed into a villain and moved by … like Garrick and Siddons were able to mobilize respectable domestic ideology and financial success as part of their celebrity. Iterative contact with genteel society within Drury Lane Theatre and increased media representation of the … on Drury Lane’s charity performances under Garrick’s management, see Leslie Ritchie, David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 128-136. 22 . Danielle Spratt, ‘’Genius Thus Munificently …
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